The Connecticut School Shooting this morning is the final nail in the coffin of this national tragedy of escalating gun violence. The Citizens must act, because our national leaders are showing no leadership. . Our national leaders must stand up to the gun lobby and not just ignore the latest escalation in this brutal and random gun violence. Ending the gun show loophole, creating manifests of the mentally ill who own guns, etc. must be implemented.

There are at least 26 dead in Newtown, CT, including 20 children. And all the White House can say is that "today is not the day" to consider stronger gun control. You're right, Mr. President, that was YESTERDAY. And every yesterday before that one. The yesterday before Columbine, Aurora, and more. Silence in the face of tragedy isn't respectfulness, it's cowardice.

I fear I am in a country going bankrupt by the extravagant belief that we can solve the world's problems, every effort saturated with more pork. Those who don't want pork actually fired from the Budget Committee

My background is simple. I am a father and a husband.

Children dying in our Schools

The multiple shootings in Connecticut, including more then 20 children, should awaken all of us to the need to reinstate a ban on assault rifles.

To all citizens of the United States: today, Dec. 14, 2012, 20 children and 6 adults were shot dead by a gunman in an elementary school in Connecticut. Last night in China, 25 elementary school students were wounded by a knife attack, however not one person did not make it out alive. The reason why all of these children will be able to return home once again is because China has enacted laws ensuring that not everyone with an identification and drivers license has the right to obtain a gun. We will never be able to prevent people like the gunman and the knifeman from existing in our society, however we can decide whether we want our children recovering in the hospital after an attack like this, or dead. The difference is staggering between how much we spend to defend ourselves from foreign threats that have yet to make themselves present, and how much we spend to keep ourselves safe from mass shootings that happen far too often on our own soil. Gun manufacturers make billions of dollars from not having gun control. How much more of our blood can we afford to shed to maintain these industries? Countries like Japan and Norway are proving that we are falling farther and farther behind developed countries where people live a better life without wielding guns. The right to bear arms ends when the 89 percent of Americans who own guns were unable to protect 20 children from being shot dead, and when the good these arms do is a nearly nonexistent drop in the sea of devastation that they cause. Banning the use of all automatic weapons and having more strict gun control laws are the first steps to take in ending these fully preventable tragedies in the United States. I therefore ask all of my fellow Americans to consider while having their dinners tonight the twenty six of our families that will never have another meal with their loved ones again.

I haven't been personally affected by the shooting at the Connecticut elementary school but innocent children have died at the hand of deranged gun carrying citizens. These types of crimes are happening too frequently. I believe this is due to the lack of gun control. It is time out for crying. We need to CHANGE the gun laws ASAP and make it almost impossible for anyone to get or carry a gun.

Children dying in our Schools

This latest shooting in Connecticut of innocent children and adults is horrible. It's going to take mothers to sign this petition to get Congress to once again ban assault weapons and also provide funding for mental health so that these troubled angry shooters get help before they go on another rampage. I want to see millions of mothers (and dads) sign this petition. This senseless violence has to stop.

I have been to rallies and protests to end wars. To free Soviet Jews. To support exploited workers. To fight AIDS. For women's equality and reproductive freedom. Against the death penalty. And more. But i have never publicly protested our nation's willingness to allow guns of all kinds to proliferate, almost unchecked. New Year's resolutions are mostly useless. Perhaps this year, all of us could make one resolution we mean to keep. That before the end of 2013, we will all let our voices be heard on this issue. For efficiency's sake, why not just all meet on the National Mall on January 1, 2013. And please, bring the kids. Mourn, then organize!

Keeping weapons whose sole purpose is to kill people off the streets.